It's actually theoretically possible that since stress can delay or prevent ovulation that the trauma of a rape could delay or prevent ovulation which would mean no conception. People familiar with Creighton know that this is what can cause the so-called "double Peak." Would this prevent conception? Obviously not in all cases, like if ovulation is occurring or has occurred. But it's not impossible, as confirmed by a friend of mine who is a Creighton Medical Consultant.

In other words, you are committing the sin of detraction against a good man who has dedicated a lifetime of service to the pro-life cause for no real reason except to amuse yourself. I am through with you and your blog.

I voted for him too, and will again if he's still the candidate in November. But I am appalled by the remark that "legitimate rape" seldom produces a pregnancy. I think he has some maturing to do personally as well as politically.

To paraphrase Jamie Allman this morning, you can kill your girlfriend after driving off a bridge or molest a young intern in the Oval Office, and survive politically, but the two-minute hate starts when you say something stupid that everyone knows you don't mean -- if you are a conservative.

I think Akin meant that if abortion was illegal to all but rape victims it would be abused by women claiming "rape" when it was consentual. I'm sorry if that isn't politically correct, but there are false claims of rape and false "statistics" of women conceiving who were not truly raped. I didn't vote for Akin because he is a career politician and acts as one.

Surely not for publishing on your wholesome site, but merely for your own amusement. The Onion captures this issue perfectly:http://www.theonion.com/articles/i-misspokewhat-i-meant-to-say-is-i-am-dumb-as-dog,29256/?ref=auto

Timman said "given to a known anti-life hack reporter. You can't give the enemy the line to hang you with." Very interesting - the reporter is Charles Jacko, a FOX 2 News reporter, which of course, only offers "Fair and Balanced News." So much so that the following day, when the national and local press was all abuzz about Akin's disastrous remarks, didn't offer one second of coverage. Charles Jacko tosses up underhanded, softball pitches to Republican candidates - there seemed to be no intention on his part to trip Akin up - they're on the same team. As Timman said, Akin offered some very ignorant statements about the female body magically rejecting the sperm of a rapist so she couldn't become pregnant, unless, of course, it wasn't really a rape. So the 30,000+ children born because their mothers were raped must have, uhm, "really wanted it" or were "lying" about being raped. Which is like being raped again, and again, and again.Truly sad.*sigh*

A Day That Will Live in Glory

Pray for the Four Cardinals: Burke, Caffarra, Meiser and Brandmuller

“You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day."